Yoshio Tsuchiya

Aliens have released all the giant monsters from their imprisonment on Monster Island and are using them to destroy all major cities on the planet. It's up to the daring crew of the spaceship SY-3 to infiltrate the aliens' headquarters before the monsters and King Ghidrah annihilate the planet.

Detectives race to thwart a mysterious, diabolical killer who uses a matter-transmitting device to teleport to his victims, and then escape.

Toshiro Mifune was a formidable and mercurial talent, both onscreen and off. The Last Samurai proves just how transcendent he was as an actor.

When a Japanese space station comes under attack by three alien vessels, the nations of Earth unite in a common cause to defeat the invading forces.

Everything comes full circle when Zatoichi returns to his hometown. Unfortunately, he finds that a childhood friend has become a feared crime lord, keeping the locals in debt and bilking them of their rice. Capping off Zatoichi’s feature film era before he made the transition to television in 1974, this chapter is suffused with melancholy, closing the series on a note of seriousness and emotional heft that it has well earned.

A man in a padded cell tells of being shipwrecked on a foggy island with toadstool-eating tourists.

Scientists get caught in the middle when Godzilla fights to protect his newborn son from prehistoric monsters.

Aliens pull a fast one on humans after pleading with them to borrow Godzilla and Rodan to defeat King Ghidorah, only to unleash them on the Earth.

Like a kaiju version of Ali vs. Frazier, this 1991 film pits Godzilla in the fight of his life against the three-headed Ghidorah -- who is brought to life by devious time travelers.